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Lynne Zander wins Toastmasters contests
Among those taking part in Area 10 humourous speech and evaluation contests, from left, are Carol Byce, chair of humorous contest and member of Arnprior club; Ed Nicholson, humorous contest second-place winner representing Chalk River Labs Toastmasters; Lynne Kobus, humorous contest third-place winner representing Renfrew Toastmasters; Brad Dota, humorous contest contestant representing Arnprior Toastmasters club; Lenore Whelan, evaluation contest second-place winner representing Arnprior Toastmasters club; Genevieve Hamilton, evaluation contest third-place winner representing Chalk River Labs Toastmasters; Lynne Zander, humorous and evaluation contest first-place winner representing Valley Vintage Advanced Toastmasters Club; and Maureen Whittaker, chair of evaluation contest and a member of Valley Vintage Advanced club.
Arnprior resident earns top honours in Area 10 humourous speech and evaluation contests EMC lifestyle – Lynne Zander of Arnprior won both humourous speech and evaluation contests in an Area 10 Toastmasters competition in Douglas Sept. 29.
She represented the area at the next level up, the Division B contest on Oct.13 in the Overbrook Community Centre in Ottawa. The winners of Division B is slated to go to
the Fall Conference in Kingston Nov. 16-18. Area 10 covers the five Toastmasters clubs in the area from Deep River to Arnprior.
Toastmasters is a voluntary self-help organization to help its members become better public speakers and leaders. Along the way members
also become better listeners and have a lot of fun with their Toastmaster friends. The humorous speech contest is a great example of that fun and challenges of creating
and presenting speeches. The evaluation contest challenges the ability to provide effective yet friendly feedback to members when they make speeches.
Develop leadership and communication skills with Toastmasters EMC lifestyle – What is the most important ingredient for success and achievement in today’s workplace? That’s right, the ability to communicate skilfully and confidently with people, says Toastmasters. Club officials maintain excellent interpersonal communication skills are the most potent career and personal skills a person can possess. If you are looking for an
economical way to improve presentation skills and the communication skills of staff, Toastmasters could be for you. Human resources professionals estimate more than 80 per cent of the people who fail at their jobs do so for one reason – they don’t relate well to other people. Recent research shows that, even in highly technical jobs, success or failure is deter-
mined more by human relations skills than by technical proficiency. CAREER SUCCESS
Powerful communication skills can propel people along the path to career success and personal achievement. They can lead to promotions, to working more effectively with the boss and co-workers, to building better
ly. You will be able to improve prospects for career and financial success. You will sharpen leadership skills and will project a more confident, more polished and more professional image. EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD
Toastmasters International is 88 years old. If you would like to find out more about how Toastmasters can help you develop leadership and communication skills, check out one of the local clubs - Mondays in Renfrew, Tuesdays in Pembroke and Wednesdays in Arnprior or Deep River. Call 613-649-2950 for more.
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relationships with the important people in your life, and to establishing your leadership potential. Toastmasters is a way to develop all of the above skills at a cost of $120 per person per year. At Toastmasters, you learn practical, proven techniques for communicating effective-
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